MusiC and Bands
THE JULIE RUIN is a NYC based feminist band with influences in punk, noise, and just about everything, being five music fanatics with a history of social activism, CBGB's, Carol King, and caberet.
All songs written by Sara Landeau, Carmine Covelli, Kathleen Hanna, Kenny Mellman, and Kathi Wilcox. The Julie Ruin are on Hardly Arts Records.
Live performances headlining tours or as part of world festivals include the US, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Australia, Tasmania, and more.
Reviews and interviews include New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Timeout, Esquire, Big Takeover, NME, Pitchfork, Fader, Consequence of Sound, Flaunt, Bust, and dozens of US, European, and world newspapers and online journals.
College Music Journal (CMJ) listed song “I Decide” #1 in 2017. Rolling Stone listed song ‘Run Fast” 2015 as #3 in their top ten albums of the year.
The Julie Ruin band press (selected)
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22073-hit-reset/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/hit-reset-188717/
https://www.spin.com/2016/07/review-the-julie-ruin-hit-reset/ and fun interview/photoshoot
https://www.spin.com/2013/08/julie-ruin-kathleen-hanna-cover-story-august-2013/
Performance Live on NPR/WNYC https://www.npr.org/2013/08/25/214486750/first-listen-the-julie-ruin-run-fast
https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-various-artists-14780-322445
Late Show Circuit:
Late Night With Seth Meyers https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/the-julie-ruin-performance-i-decide/3066602
Jimmy Fallon Show https://waywaw.com/post/60450845031/the-julie-ruin-on-jimmy-fallon
Last Call with Carson Daly https://www.nbc.com/last-call-with-carson-daly/video/the-julie-ruin-oh-come-on/2936558
Liscensing: (selected)
Client: Advil, Super Bowl Commercial, 2016: Song licensed “Oh Come On” by The Julie Ruin https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AOm7/advil-super-bowl-2016-distant-memory and https://www.tvadvertsongs.com/advil-distant-memory/
Client: Amazon Prime, “Utopia” Series Trailer, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxXIH8oSWEU
Press and more
Electro-Acoustic
The solo electric guitar compositions are semi-autonomous: they each represent a distinct avenue of research while also forming a series or suite. The first guitar part in the Etude for 4 Guitars is prepared and detuned. This guitar acts as a percussive instrument. Plastic twist ties are placed beneath the strings, weaving up and over every other string across the third fret. The prepared percussive line may appear that it is coming from a guitar, but it isn't easy to recognize it as such from an audio recording. Also included are homemade synthesizers and instruments, a fairly big guitar pedal board, and patches built in Max MSP.
My compositions have minimal setups, focusing on the gesture and the instrument's sound research: its resonances, limits, expansions, and impurities. Experimentation with feedback, crackling, harmonics, overflowings, short circuits, and noise is examined and improvised.
SELECTED PRESS and INTERVIEWS
Interview with the Hitchcock Institute for American Music , Spring 2020 http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/hitchcock/publications/amr/v49-2/eckenroth.php
Sound Thinking NYC, Guest Speaker July 2020 https://creativeartsteam.org/programs/sound-thinking-nycWomen in sound https://www.womeninsound.com/issue-2/sara-landeau
Earthquaker Pedals https://twitter.com/earthquakerdev/status/1048587468612796417
Alston Pudding Interview http://allstonpudding.com/interview-sara-landeau-julie-ruin/
She Shreds interview https://sheshreds.com/musician-tips-julie-ruin/
Tom Tom Magazine interview https://tomtommag.com/2018/03/chicks-with-picks-sara-landeau-on-lessonface-music-theory-the-julie-ruin/
Bust Magazine Interview https://bust.com/music/16231-the-julie-ruin-s-sara-landeau-on-how-she-met-kathleen-hanna-and-why-she-s-not-a-feminist-bust-interview.html
Adorama interview https://www.adorama.com/alc/insound-meet-sara-landeau-music-geek-and-guitarist-for-the-julie-ruin
Brand New Kind Of interview https://blog.brandnewkindof.com/2013/08/28/interview-sara-landeau-artist-teacher-guitarist-for-the-julie-ruin/
